Deferred payment of wage types, especially time wage types in SAP HCM
For the payroll of a month, the time wage types and, if necessary, other compensation components of the previous period should be read and paid out. This is intended to implement a time-delayed payment. In the SAP standard, this functionality is implemented in the industry solution for the German public sector as part of the "inconstant payments" (see payroll schema D100, subschema DOTK, subschema DOZB).
Otherwise, this can be achieved by designing your billing scheme accordingly. We would like to present a design variant to you below.
In the variant shown above, the time wage types that arose after the payroll run are paid out in the following month via retroactive accounting for the previous month.
However, some tariffs and/or company agreements provide for payment of all time bonuses and possibly other wage types strictly in the following month.
This is quite easy to implement in an international context and is described in SAP Note 725347 (https://launchpad.sap.com/).
The solution is also implemented in the public sector scheme D100.
The penultimate paragraph of the above reference refers to the German problem of core night work and the associated tax-free bonuses. Technically, this is realized by the XIT function.
The solution shown by us takes this fact into account and is implemented as follows.
Solution: Deferred payment in SAP HCM
The wage types which are to be paid out with a time delay are entered in the Processing class 65 over the value 1 identified.
A "shadow wage type" that does not lead to payment must be created for all wage types marked in this way.
Furthermore, a shadow wage type must be generated for at least the following "/" wage types:
- /256 SO/FE/NA surcharges
- /25E tax free §3b
- /254 free of charge, svpfl §3b (total)
- /25C free of charge, subject to sv §3b
- /259 Stpfl, svpfl §3b
An example of an excerpt from a wage type catalogue:
Adjustments in schema D000
Another tip: For test purposes, it is advisable to display the shadow wage types on the payslip.
Enforce payout in month of origin
In the event that all "time-delayed" wage types are to be paid out in the month in which they are incurred, it is advisable to establish a wage type that functions as a switch wage type. If this wage type If, for example, an employee is entered in infotype 0014 (recurring payments) in the month when he leaves, the wage types are forced to be paid out in the month in which they are made. In the logic outlined above, this wage type must be queried in the gross part of the schema before the deferred wage types are removed.
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